Show WOES OF A WHEELMAN FROZE HIS PACE A > D HANDS NEAR THE MOJAVE DESERT Willlnm I Robinson bas a Remarkable Remark-able Time Crossing the Sierras In a Sort of Globe Ginlllns Ride Which He it Taking Arrived in the City at Soon Yesterday William I Robinson of Minneapolis arrived ar-rived in the city yesterday at noon on his bicycle There is nothing very startling start-ling about a man arriving in the city awheel but for the fact that Mr Robinson Robin-son is a sort of globe trotter or wheeler as it were He left Los Angeles on May 4 and is en route for New York and Boston BoS-ton and other eastern points in the interest Inter-est of the Cleveland wheel which he Is riding Not the special wheel which he bestrides but all Cleveland wheels he being employed by the company Mr Robinson ha had a tough time of it since he left Los Angeles He left there and skirted the Mojave desert and encountered a northwest wind which was encountere nortwet wa so intensely cold that he froze his hands and face That was very good for a starter After passing Mojave and getting get-ting to Tehachapi he encountered a blinding blind-ing snow storm and was five hours in getting twentyone miles after escaping from the drifts Getting out of trouble there he took the San Joaquin valley where he got relief The road for 300 miles Is a level as a floor and 100 miles per day was a picnic run After leaving Sacramento he took the route via the Central Pacific and arriving at Colfax which is at an elevation of 4000 feet found more snow For fifty miles there was snow along the track He took the railroad and rode along through the snow sheds for fortytwo miles and when he arrived at the summit found twenty feet I of good cold stuff in Which to wallow At gec I igoa Truckee he encountered good weather which lasted him to Wadsworth The roads were all in fine condition the grade was down hill and the weather pleasant But after leaving Wadsworth and going to Kelton a distance of 500 miles there Kelon 50 tee were no roads at all scarcely a trail and he had recourse to the railroad He then struck a greasewood country and while traveling through it punctured his two tires 275 times From Kelton to Ogden it rained all the time and when he reached the Junction city on Saturday he was weary wet and hungry The wheelmen We up took him in and dried him and then showed him up the canyon and around the town He arrived in Salt Lake yesterday at noon Lke Humboldt he was overtaken by J W Wilts who is riding to break the record and was with him two days when the latter left and plunged on Into the night The present record is fortyseven days across the continent and Robinson says Wilts is in a fair way to beat it despite the weather he is encountering He is riding day and night Robinson has ridden 2800 miles thus far this year From this city he will go up Parleys canyon and down Chalk creek to Echo canyon from there to Cheyenne and Denver thence to Kansas City Minneapolis and Chicago and thence to the east by a route to be determined de-termined He will ride till cold weather arrives and expects to cover 8000 or 10 000 miles this season |